[Well, given that Rei clearly knows all of the details of the case Naoto would have considered secret, she doesn't see any reason to keep hiding it. She sets the mug back down on the table, looking into the pale green liquid.] I wouldn't say that it 'made me believe,' per se; I knew there was information I wasn't privy to, but had no idea what it was.

I'd identified a pattern in the case that the local police had overlooked: The victims had appeared on television before their deaths. There were three others, though, who had similarly appeared on television before going missing-- but had turned up unharmed. Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, and Rise Kujikawa... and all three were now spending time together.

It was a reasonable deduction that whatever had happened to the first two victims had happened to those three, as well, but they had managed to survive. The common factor for all of them was a television appearance. [She sips her tea again.] So I began giving interviews to the news.